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font-family:garamond,serif;">Otis</p> <table width=100%><tr><td valign="top"> <a name="OTIS"> </a> <table border width=100% cellpadding=5><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><b>OTIS</b> <small>(<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/soundex/o.html#O320">Soundex O320</a>) — <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ashlock-athelston.html#ATHAS">ATHAS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haskill-hastie.html#HASSIOTIS">HASSIOTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/louanner-louwet.html#LOUZIOTIS">LOUZIOTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/majors-malloney.html#MALIOTIS">MALIOTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OATES">OATES</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#OATIS">OATIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/odem-oestreicher.html#ODIS">ODIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/orrice-orvyl.html#ORTIS">ORTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otjen-overstolz.html#OTTIS">OTTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otjen-overstolz.html#OTTS">OTTS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/postalwait-poto.html#POTISH">POTISH</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sparling-spellman.html#SPELIOTIS">SPELIOTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/speranza-sprafka.html#SPILIOTIS">SPILIOTIS</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/timmons-tittmann.html#TISO">TISO</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html#YEOTIS">YEOTIS</a>.</small> </td></tr></table><br clear="all"> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>OTIS:</b> <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#604.89.80">Charles Moore Bancroft</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/button-byrer.html#215.03.45">Mark Wilson Buyck Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graybill-greely.html#108.44.11">Horace Wesley Greeley</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#062.20.35">Charles Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/owen.html#777.62.77">Walter Cecil Owen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#862.59.64">Robert Helyer Thayer</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/w-waddy.html#992.37.12">William Garner Waddel</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams6.html#304.77.26">Lemuel Williams</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams6.html#656.32.39">Lemuel Williams</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="327.00.56">Otis, Albert T.</a></b> — of Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/CA.html">1952</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="607.77.93">Otis, Anna</a></b> — Communist. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="225.82.39">Otis, Asa H.</a> (1797-1855)</b> — of Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in Fort Ann, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/03-24.html">March 24, 1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention</a> 1st District, 1835; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County, 1850. Died in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/08-26.html">August 26, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 155 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00675">Woodmere Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Matson Otis and Deborah (Wetheral) Otis; married to Mary Goodell; second cousin once removed of <a href="#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a> and <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a>; third cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a> and <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#869.84.38">John Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#502.90.13">Roger Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#704.11.74">Solomon Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a> and <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cowart-cowpland.html#469.29.30">Josiah Cowles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#152.06.17">Jonathan Brace</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#380.89.20">Ephraim Safford</a>, <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a>, <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis (1826-1875)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#060.29.76">Abraham Lansing</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parker5.html#103.37.19">James Parker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strong.html#394.41.71">Joseph Churchill Strong</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fringer-frosh.html#046.96.29">Calvin Frisbie</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/strong.html#981.03.48">Ebenezer Strong</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#902.41.90">DeGrasse Maltby</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#154.04.19">Henry Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#106.38.64">John Adams Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#019.56.86">Edmund Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sacks-saintaubin.html#243.98.46">James Safford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rockwell.html#087.76.51">John Arnold Rockwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#991.57.76">Ralph Smith Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tagawa-talbird.html#503.96.56">Henry G. Taintor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>, <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>, <a href="#658.12.04">James Otis (1836-1898)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#658.04.77">Edwin Carpenter Pinney</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#369.09.74">Daniel Frederick Webster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#778.12.24">Theron Ephron Catlin</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/98012640">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="059.85.99">Otis, Asahel</a> (1768-1837)</b> — of Montville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn. Born in Montville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1768/05-01.html">May 1, 1768</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Montville, 1822. Died in Bethany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GE-died.html">Genesee County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/01-12.html">January 12, 1837</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 256 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-buried.html# ">Chester Burying Ground</a>, Montville, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Nathaniel Otis and Amy (Gardner) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/01-15.html">January 15, 1792</a>, to Mary Chester; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a> and <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#060.29.76">Abraham Lansing</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#675.84.63">John Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>, <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a> and <a href="#658.12.04">James Otis</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#713.93.60">William Barret Ridgely</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#450.06.62">Austin Eugene Lathrop</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#102.07.68">Stephen Daniel Tilden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#759.91.17">Moses Younglove Tilden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#308.96.36">Samuel Jones Tilden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams5.html#951.27.66">John Quincy Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tiernon-tilgham.html#789.26.22">Daniel Rose Tilden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hughey-hulka.html#726.97.22">Calvin Tilden Hulburd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chastain-chenet.html#088.18.66">Andrew Gould Chatfield</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/76602819">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="059.61.96">Otis, Charles Augustus, Sr.</a> (1827-1905)</b> — also known as <b>Charles A. Otis</b> — of Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-lived.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio. Born in Bloomfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MU-born.html">Muskingum County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-30.html">January 30, 1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cleveland.html">Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio</a>, 1873-74. Founder, Otis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Iron and Steel</a> Co. Died in Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-died.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/06-28.html">June 28, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 149 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-buried.html#cms00167">Lake View Cemetery</a>, Cleveland, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Augustus Otis and Eliza (Proctor) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/09-08.html">September 8, 1853</a>, to Mary Jane Sheppard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-14.html">October 14, 1863</a>, to Ann Eliza Sheppard; nephew of <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a> and <a href="#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a> and <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7938272">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="872.57.23">Otis, Charles Eugene</a> (1846-1917)</b> — also known as <b>Charles E. Otis</b> — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-log-cabin.html">log cabin</a>, Prairieville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BR-born.html">Barry County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-11.html">May 11, 1846</a>. Democrat. District judge in Minnesota 2nd District, 1889-1902; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/spju.html">justice of Minnesota state supreme court</a>, 1904. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/11-26.html">November 26, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 199 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Isaac Otis and Caroline Abigail (Curtiss) Otis; brother of <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a>; married to Elizabeth Noyes Ransom (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransom.html#284.27.65">Epaphroditus Ransom</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a>; second cousin of <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="954.25.05">Otis, Darlene McCulligh</a></b> — of Michigan. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> 23rd District, 1976. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 1976. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="799.32.06">Otis, David Perry</a> (1809-1890)</b> — also known as <b>David P. Otis</b> — of Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn.; Norwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn.; Niantic, East Lyme, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn. Born in East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/02-28.html">February 28, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/musical-sporting.html">piano manufacturing business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/stsen.html">Connecticut state senate</a> 9th District, 1860. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/12-30.html">December 30, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 305 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Otis and Nancy (Perry) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/03-21.html">March 21, 1832</a>, to Hannah Comstock; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/10-04.html">October 4, 1837</a>, to Julia Ann Florence; first cousin twice removed of <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; second cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a> and <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="786.88.20">Otis, Duval H.</a></b> — of Rutherford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/NJ.html">1940</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="497.00.68">Otis, Edna M.</a></b> — of East Tawas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/IC-lived.html">Iosco County</a>, Mich. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MI.html">Michigan Republican State Central Committee</a>, 1947. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="825.92.37">Otis, Frank</a></b> — of Alameda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/AL-lived.html">Alameda County</a>, Calif. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/alameda.html">Mayor of Alameda, Calif.</a>, 1919-25. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="367.12.26">Otis, George Lorenzo</a> (1829-1882)</b> — also known as <b>George L. Otis</b> — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born in Homer, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CR-born.html">Cortland County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/10-07.html">October 7, 1829</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/sthse.html">Minnesota state house of representatives</a> District 2, 1857-58; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/stsen.html">Minnesota state senate</a> 21st District, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/saintpaul.html">mayor of St. Paul, Minn.</a>, 1867-68; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Minnesota</a>, 1869. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-died.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/03-29.html">March 29, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-buried.html#cms00693">Oakland Cemetery</a>, St. Paul, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Isaac Otis and Caroline Abigail (Curtiss) Otis; brother of <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Mary Virginia (Mix) Morrison; first cousin once removed of <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a>; second cousin of <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="660.26.16">Otis, Harold</a></b> — Socialist. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a> 9th District, 1934. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="485.24.85">Otis, Harris F.</a> (1816-1861)</b> — of Danby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-lived.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt.; Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/BE-lived.html">Bennington County</a>, Vt.; Topeka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SH-lived.html">Shawnee County</a>, Kan. Born in Vermont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/06-03.html">June 3, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a>, 1849; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/topeka.html">mayor of Topeka, Kan.</a>, 1860-61. Died in Topeka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SH-died.html">Shawnee County</a>, Kan., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/index.html">1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">about 45 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Harris Otis and Sarah (Rogers) Otis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/">1836</a> to Elizabeth H. Haviland; married to Pauline Lumpham; father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker8.html#100.37.78">Thaddeus H. Walker</a>; father of <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a> and <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>, <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0027.html">Adams-Baldwin family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="113.88.03">Otis, Harris F.</a></b> — of Danby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-lived.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/ofc/sthse.html">Vermont state house of representatives</a> from Danby, 1888. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="498.51.02">Otis, Harrison Gray</a> (1765-1848)</b> — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/10-08.html">October 8, 1765</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1796, 1803-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives</a>, 1803-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts</a>, 1796; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> at-large, 1797-1801; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1805; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1814; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1817-22; Federalist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1823; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/boston.html">mayor of Boston, Mass.</a>, 1829-32. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/10-28.html">October 28, 1848</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 20 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms00204">Mt. Auburn Cemetery</a>, Cambridge, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a> and Elizabeth (Gray) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/05-31.html">May 31, 1790</a>, to Sally Foster; grandfather of <a href="#658.12.04">James Otis (1836-1898)</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#862.59.64">Robert Helyer Thayer</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#427.69.26">Albert Clinton Griswold</a>; third cousin of <a href="#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a>, <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis (1826-1875)</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>, <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a>, <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a>, <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>, <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a> and <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#427.74.85">Chillus Doty</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#266.71.65">James Duane Doty</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#060.29.76">Abraham Lansing</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/CU-names.html">Harrison, Maine</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Politician named for him:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blais-blake.html#251.35.96">Harrison Gray Otis Blake</a> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000127">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408380">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison Gray Otis (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1767">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="787.12.01">Otis, Harrison Gray</a> (1837-1917)</b> — of Louisville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky.; Santa Barbara, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SA-lived.html">Santa Barbara County</a>, Calif.; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/WA-born.html">Washington County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/02-10.html">February 10, 1837</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/KY.html">1860</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1892/CA.html">1892</a>; general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">rupture of the heart</a>, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/07-30.html">July 30, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html#cms05392">Hollywood Forever Cemetery</a>, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Sarah (Dyer) Otis and Stephen Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/09-11.html">September 11, 1859</a>, to Eliza A. Wetherby; second cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a> and <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a> and <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a> and <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> <i>SS Harrison Gray Otis</i> (built 1942-43 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; mined and beached at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GI-names.html">Gibraltar</a>, 1943) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2025">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="749.51.91">Otis, Henry Dalton</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Wayne County 1st District, 1950. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="819.28.52">Otis, Hugh</a></b> — of Hackensack, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BE-lived.html">Bergen County</a>, N.J. Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/hackensack.html">mayor of Hackensack, N.J.</a>, 1930. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="230.85.45">Otis, James</a> (1826-1875)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/08-11.html">August 11, 1826</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer and exporter</a>; candidate for Presidential Elector for California; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/CA.html">1872</a> (delegation chair); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/sanfrancisco.html">mayor of San Francisco, Calif.</a>, 1873-75; died in office 1875. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diphtheria.html">diphtheria</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-died.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/10-30.html">October 30, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 80 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-buried.html#cms00174">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SM-buried.html#cms01912">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a>, Colma, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George Washington Otis and Hannah Leavitt (Waters) Otis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Lucy Hamilton Macondray; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a> and <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a> and <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26230495">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="658.12.04">Otis, James</a> (1836-1898)</b> — of New York. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-12.html">October 12, 1836</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 1st District, 1878; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 1st District, 1884-85. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">congestion of the lungs</a>, in Bellport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/07-22.html">July 22, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 283 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James William Otis and Martha Crapon (Church) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/03-31.html">March 31, 1863</a>, to Adelia Ludlum; grandson of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#862.59.64">Robert Helyer Thayer</a>; great-grandson of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#427.69.26">Albert Clinton Griswold</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="935.04.28">Otis, James E.</a></b> — of Tuckerton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/OC-lived.html">Ocean County</a>, N.J. Born in Connecticut. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/NJcc n">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1891. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="452.58.73">Otis, Joe</a></b> — of Mishawaka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/SJ-lived.html">St. Joseph County</a>, Ind. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/IN.html">1944</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="928.80.95">Otis, John</a> (1801-1857)</b> — of Hallowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-lived.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine. Born in Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/index.html">1801</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of Maine state legislature, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maine</a> 3rd District, 1849-51. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/08-17.html">August 17, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-buried.html#cms02607">Hallowell Cemetery</a>, Hallowell, Maine. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Oliver Otis and Elizabeth (Stanchfield) Otis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/">1831</a> to Harriet Frances Vaughn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/08-21.html">August 21, 1848</a>, to Ellen Grant; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>, <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>, <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a>, <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a> and <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000128">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408381">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="813.69.04">Otis, John</a></b> — Candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="616.68.76">Otis, John C.</a></b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-lived.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/sthse.html">Ohio state house of representatives</a> from Hamilton County; elected 1897. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="450.08.21">Otis, John E.</a></b> — of West New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/westnewyork.html">Mayor of West New York, N.J.</a>, 1898-1902. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Father of <a href="#447.85.61">John E. Otis Jr.</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="447.85.61">Otis, John E., Jr.</a></b> — of West New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-lived.html">Hudson County</a>, N.J. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/westnewyork.html">Mayor of West New York, N.J.</a>, 1949-54. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#450.08.21">John E. Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="697.64.40">Otis, John F.</a></b> — of Oswego, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OS-lived.html">Oswego County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/oswego.html">Mayor of Oswego, N.Y.</a>, 1932-33; defeated, 1937; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OS-parties.html">chair of Oswego County Democratic Party</a>, 1941-42; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/NY.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/NY.html">1948</a> (alternate). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="137.06.81">Otis, John Grant</a> (1838-1916)</b> — of Topeka, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SH-lived.html">Shawnee County</a>, Kan. Born in Danby, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/RU-born.html">Rutland County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/index.html">1838</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kansas</a> 4th District, 1891-93. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/index.html">1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/SH-buried.html#cms00648">Topeka Cemetery</a>, Topeka, Kan. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and Elizabeth H. (Haviland) Otis; married to Bina A. Numan; second cousin of <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a> and <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0027.html">Adams-Baldwin family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000129">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408382">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="509.89.64">Otis, John H.</a></b> — Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 8th District, 1852-53. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="910.93.50">Otis, L. P.</a></b> — of Illinois. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/IL.html">1868</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="494.27.36">Otis, Lauren Ford</a> (1842-1917)</b> — also known as <b>Lauren F. Otis</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/AL-lived.html">Allegan County</a>, Mich. Born near Syracuse, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-born.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/09-10.html">September 10, 1842</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Dry goods merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">fruit</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">grower</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a> from Allegan County 1st District, 1895-98. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/11-19.html">November 19, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 70 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Newton Otis and Elizabeth D. (Eager) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/08-14.html">August 14, 1872</a>, to Mary McLallen; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/12-28.html">December 28, 1902</a>, to Nettie E. Davis; first cousin once removed of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a> and <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Otis, M. E.</b> <i>See</i> <a href="#616.52.63">Merrill E. Otis</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="616.52.63">Otis, Merrill E.</a> (1884-1944)</b> — also known as <b>M. E. Otis</b> — Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/NO-born.html">Nodaway County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/07-07.html">July 7, 1884</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Missouri</a> 4th District, 1914; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Missouri</a>, 1925-44; died in office 1944. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/12-23.html">December 23, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 169 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1818&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/otis-merrill-e.">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="858.14.48">Otis, Michael J.</a></b> — of Fulton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OS-lived.html">Oswego County</a>, N.Y. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/NY.html">1980</a>. Still living as of 1980. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="671.86.90">Otis, Nathaniel</a></b> — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/newport.html#2">Newport, R.I.</a>, 1775-76. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="615.78.55">Otis, Norton Prentiss</a> (1840-1905)</b> — also known as <b>Norton P. Otis</b> — of Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Halifax, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/WN-born.html">Windham County</a>, Vt., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/03-18.html">March 18, 1840</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/yonkers.html">Mayor of Yonkers, N.Y.</a>, 1880-82; defeated, 1886; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Westchester County 1st District, 1884; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 19th District, 1903-05; defeated, 1900; died in office 1905. Died in Yonkers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-died.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/02-20.html">February 20, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-buried.html#cms02773">Oakland Cemetery</a>, Hudson Terrace, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Elisha Graves Otis and Susan (Houghton) Otis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/">1877</a> to Lizzie A. Fahs; father of Charles Edwin Otis (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#191.71.28">J. Harvey Bell</a>); second cousin once removed of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000130">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408383">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="688.97.49">Otis, Oliver</a></b> — of Rockland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Maine. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/rockland.html">mayor of Rockland, Maine</a>, 1905. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="306.13.29">Otis, Oran Gray</a> (1795-1836)</b> — of Ballston Spa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SA-lived.html">Saratoga County</a>, N.Y. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/12-05.html">December 5, 1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Saratoga County, 1831-32. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Hartford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/HA-died.html">Hartford County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/06-28.html">June 28, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 206 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Perez Otis and Deborah (Gillett) Otis; married to Lucy Kingman; first cousin once removed of <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>; second cousin of <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a> and <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a> and <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="408.70.98">Otis, Ralph Chester</a> (b. 1870)</b> — also known as <b>Ralph C. Otis</b> — of Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-lived.html">Cook County</a>, Ill. Born in Chicago, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-born.html">Cook County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/03-08.html">March 8, 1870</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/IL.html">1916</a>. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CO-buried.html#cms00626">Oak Woods Cemetery</a>, Chicago, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph Edward Otis and Maria (Taylor) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/11-23.html">November 23, 1899</a>, to Sarane Seelye; first cousin twice removed of <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0024.html">Lansing family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="780.14.09">Otis, Ralph E.</a></b> — of Pittsfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BE-lived.html">Berkshire County</a>, Mass. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1920; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/pittsfield.html">mayor of Pittsfield, Mass.</a>, 1939. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="857.31.62">Otis, Samuel Allyne</a> (1740-1814)</b> — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Barnstable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-born.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1740/11-24.html">November 24, 1740</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1776-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives</a>, 1784-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts</a>, 1787-88; Secretary of the United States Senate, 1789-1814. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/04-22.html">April 22, 1814</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 149 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Otis (1702-1778) and Mary (Allyne) Otis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/12-31.html">December 31, 1764</a>, to Elizabeth Gray; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-28.html">March 28, 1782</a>, to Mary (Smith) Gray; father of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="#658.12.04">James Otis (1836-1898)</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#862.59.64">Robert Helyer Thayer</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/freeman.html#931.49.63">Nathaniel Freeman Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#201.75.54">Benjamin Fessenden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html#398.31.32">Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#427.69.26">Albert Clinton Griswold</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="#059.85.99">Asahel Otis</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#216.73.47">Day Otis Kellogg</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#049.84.76">Dwight Kellogg</a>, <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a>, <a href="#116.20.38">William Shaw Chandler Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. Otis</a>, <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis (1826-1875)</a> and <a href="#787.12.01">Harrison Gray Otis (1837-1917)</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>, <a href="#367.12.26">George Lorenzo Otis</a>, <a href="#137.06.81">John Grant Otis</a>, <a href="#615.78.55">Norton Prentiss Otis</a>, <a href="#494.27.36">Lauren Ford Otis</a> and <a href="#872.57.23">Charles Eugene Otis</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="#408.70.98">Ralph Chester Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#427.74.85">Chillus Doty</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#266.71.65">James Duane Doty</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lordell-lotus.html#067.03.43">George Bailey Loring</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lanigan-larkey.html#060.29.76">Abraham Lansing</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsh-dougher.html#891.02.22">Charles Doty</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0010.html">Otis family</a> of Connecticut (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000131">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408384">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Allyne Otis">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="409.02.04">Otis, Samuel D.</a></b> — of Meriden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-lived.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn. Populist candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/meriden.html">mayor of Meriden, Conn.</a>, 1892. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="764.08.16">Otis, Samuel G.</a></b> — of Hallowell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KE-lived.html">Kennebec County</a>, Maine. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/hallowell.html">Mayor of Hallowell, Maine</a>, 1914-15. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="378.10.88">Otis, Sara E.</a></b> — of Concord, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ME-lived.html">Merrimack County</a>, N.H. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/cncnd.html">Delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention</a> from Concord 4th Ward, 1948; elected <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/ofc/stsen.html">New Hampshire state senate</a> 15th District 1948. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="735.20.16">Otis, Steve</a></b> — of Rye, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/rye.html">Mayor of Rye, N.Y.</a>, 1998-2010. Still living as of 2010. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="189.23.49">Otis, Thomas</a></b> — of Barnstable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-lived.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/MA.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/MA.html">1924</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="048.86.96">Otis, Waldemier</a></b> — of Ohio. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/OH.html">1876</a>. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b><a name="116.20.38">Otis, William Shaw Chandler</a> (1807-c.1887)</b> — also known as <b>William S. C. Otis</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/SU-lived.html">Summit County</a>, Ohio. Born in Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/08-24.html">August 24, 1807</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention</a> from Summit County, 1850-51. Died about 1887 (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of William Otis and Philena (Shaw) Otis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/">1836</a> to Hannah Mygatt; married to Laura Lyman; uncle of <a href="#059.61.96">Charles Augustus Otis, Sr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="#857.31.62">Samuel Allyne Otis</a>; third cousin of <a href="#928.80.95">John Otis</a> and <a href="#230.85.45">James Otis</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="#498.51.02">Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848)</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="#306.13.29">Oran Gray Otis</a>, <a href="#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a>, <a href="#799.32.06">David Perry Otis</a>, <a href="#485.24.85">Harris F. 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